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by **theaaskimo** on Mon May 12, 2008 7:53 pm

So I clicked on this thread accidentally when I was trying to get the game thread. I was reading it and I was like WTF.

...and then a giant dragon came out of the sea and leveled Tokyo.

by **SuperHat** on Fri May 16, 2008 2:38 pm

Hello, I'm Greg. I am 21 years old and live in Iowa City, Iowa. I have been a Twins fan all my life. I am unfortunately unable to watch the Twins on tv here unless they play the White Sox and they are blacked out for me on mlb.tv (along with five other teams) even though they arent shown locally. My favorite Twins player is Jason Kuddubel and my favorite Twins pitcher is Pat Neshek.

by **Shores, Esq** on Fri May 16, 2008 4:10 pm

SuperHat wrote:Hello, I'm Greg. I am 21 years old and live in Iowa City, Iowa. I have been a Twins fan all my life. I am unfortunately unable to watch the Twins on tv here unless they play the White Sox and they are blacked out for me on mlb.tv (along with five other teams) even though they arent shown locally. My favorite Twins player is Jason Kuddubel and my favorite Twins pitcher is Pat Neshek.

Welcome, Greg. Hope you stick around.

Tough year for your favorite players, thus far.

by **henks** on Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:18 pm

Hey guys, I'm Chris.

I'm a member of Strike3Forums, but I wanted to find a place dedicated solely to Minnesota sports too, and looks like I've found it.

I'm 22, from East Central Minnesota, but I currently live in Cheyenne Wyoming. The reason I'm out here is because I'm active duty Air Force, have been for almost 4 yrs now. I played ball for 3 years in high school, pitched and 2B. Not sure what else you wanna know. If you think of something, ask. I'm a pretty open person.

by **Shores, Esq** on Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:51 pm

henks wrote:Hey guys, I'm Chris.

I'm a member of Strike3Forums, but I wanted to find a place dedicated solely to Minnesota sports too, and looks like I've found it.

I'm 22, from East Central Minnesota, but I currently live in Cheyenne Wyoming. The reason I'm out here is because I'm active duty Air Force, have been for almost 4 yrs now. I played ball for 3 years in high school, pitched and 2B. Not sure what else you wanna know. If you think of something, ask. I'm a pretty open person.

Welcome to the boards. We're glad to have you. Get in the mix.

by **crapforks** on Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:06 pm

Note to new users: Play around in the other sections of the site as well. They are lacking posters, and I went a year before even looking

by **Morneausy33** on Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:14 pm

New here. Twins fan for quite a long time. Fathers from minnesota so ive pretty much been surrounded by nothing but vikings, twins, gopher, wild, attitude since i was born....any advice would be greatly appreciated.

by **ofx1** on Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:15 pm

Morneausy33 wrote:New here. Twins fan for quite a long time. Fathers from minnesota so ive pretty much been surrounded by nothing but vikings, twins, gopher, wild, attitude since i was born....any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Politely turn down the 3 bean salad.

by **batista4goldglove** on Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:10 pm

Morneausy33 wrote:New here. Twins fan for quite a long time. Fathers from minnesota so ive pretty much been surrounded by nothing but vikings, twins, gopher, wild, attitude since i was born....any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Dan is the one always wearing the helmet.

by **Pseudofool** on Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:22 am

batista4goldglove wrote:
Morneausy33 wrote:New here. Twins fan for quite a long time. Fathers from minnesota so ive pretty much been surrounded by nothing but vikings, twins, gopher, wild, attitude since i was born....any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Dan is the one always wearing the helmet.

And the harness attached to the jungle gym. Don't feed him a chocolate bar.

by **shauer** on Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:13 pm

Hey, I'm from wisconsin but have been a twins fan most of my life..i go to the U of M now, I'd like to throw my 2 cents around as far as the twins go, but my statistical knowledge/math skills are non-existent (i'm a liberal arts major...) so, please go easy on me if I don't understand WARP2 or VORP exactly.

I just love watching them play and reserve my judgment from what I've personally seen.

(The brewers are my NL team, which I sort of have to do so my WI friends dont disown me...but a Twins/brewers WS i'm secretly cheering for the twins)

I think Morneau deserves MVP , I'm not with all the Pedroia talk.

Hopefully I can fit in on this forum, I'm not too bitter or cynical and it seems like that might work against me here

But if we can agree that we all love the Twins we should be fine
Cheers

by **Rocketpig** on Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:48 pm

shauer wrote:Hey, I'm from wisconsin but have been a twins fan most of my life..i go to the U of M now, I'd like to throw my 2 cents around as far as the twins go, but my statistical knowledge/math skills are non-existent (i'm a liberal arts major...) so, please go easy on me if I don't understand WARP2 or VORP exactly.

I just love watching them play and reserve my judgment from what I've personally seen.

(The brewers are my NL team, which I sort of have to do so my WI friends dont disown me...but a Twins/brewers WS i'm secretly cheering for the twins)

I think Morneau deserves MVP , I'm not with all the Pedroia talk.

Hopefully I can fit in on this forum, I'm not too bitter or cynical and it seems like that might work against me here

But if we can agree that we all love the Twins we should be fine
Cheers

First, welcome.

Second, ignore the assclowns who will persecute you mercilessly for the two bolded statements.

by **a-wan** on Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:56 pm

shauer wrote:i go to the U of M now, I'd like to throw my 2 cents around as far as the twins go, but my statistical knowledge/math skills are non-existent (i'm a liberal arts major...) so, please go easy on me if I don't understand WARP2 or VORP exactly.

I got my degree there too. And isn't Warp 2 a speed in Star Trek?

by **Frozented9** on Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:07 pm

a-wan wrote:
shauer wrote:i go to the U of M now, I'd like to throw my 2 cents around as far as the twins go, but my statistical knowledge/math skills are non-existent (i'm a liberal arts major...) so, please go easy on me if I don't understand WARP2 or VORP exactly.

I got my degree there too. And isn't Warp 2 a speed in Star Trek?

I think you mean Star Wars.

by **argentrans37** on Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:02 pm

Hey guys... I realize I'm not really "new," but I had never even noticed this thread until just now. Anyway, my name is Vicente, but I go by a nickname (of which I have many, I will spare you all). I am originally from Posadas, Argentina but now I reside in the state of Maryland. My step-brother is a big Twins fan, and he told me that I would fit in better in society if I follow sports. He is brutally honest, but he's helping me make friends.

Before this message gets too long, I will try to wrap things up. I am 17, I don't play sports but I love watching them. I enjoy the Twins, Vikings, and Gophers. Like I said my brother is a Minnesota fan and I guess he just rubbed off on me (yes I've heard that expression and I know it sounds gross). I look forward to watching and learning Twins baseball.

Rocketpig bless.

by **lambo_asdf** on Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:00 pm

Bienvenidos.

by **a-wan** on Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:30 pm

lambo_asdf wrote:Bienvenidos.

We speak American on this board.

by **lambo_asdf** on Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:21 am

a-wan wrote:
lambo_asdf wrote:Bienvenidos.

We speak American on this board.

What language does your avatar speak?

by **FrodaddyG** on Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:50 am

lambo_asdf wrote:
a-wan wrote:
lambo_asdf wrote:Bienvenidos.

We speak American on this board.

What language does your avatar speak?

Is he says anything other than "Sluttese" I'll be disappointed.

by **a-wan** on Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:36 pm

FrodaddyG wrote:Is he says anything other than "Sluttese" I'll be disappointed.

Is that anything like Cantonese? Doesn't matter though it isn't American.

by **butch_huskey_gone** on Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:39 pm

Opening day in April 2000 vs. the Devil Rays.
(Loud cheering) "Radke delivers as the 2000 season is under way. (Flash, flash, flash) There's a deep fly to left field, Jacque Jones to the wall, and this one is...gone. Gerald Williams takes a cut at Radke's first pitch as Tampa Bay goes ahead 1-0." (Let's go get a dome dog)

Glad to be here.

by **Pseudofool** on Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:02 pm

butch_huskey_gone wrote:Opening day in April 2000 vs. the Devil Rays.
(Loud cheering) "Radke delivers as the 2000 season is under way. (Flash, flash, flash) There's a deep fly to left field, Jacque Jones to the wall, and this one is...gone. Gerald Williams takes a cut at Radke's first pitch as Tampa Bay goes ahead 1-0." (Let's go get a dome dog)

Glad to be here.

We all have a soft spot for Butch Huskey, too. Welcome.

by **Justanotherfan** on Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:59 am

Pretty decent forum you have running here! I am an avid Twins fan who currently lives in Maine. This is my first post on any Twins forum, but since Maine really does not have many Twins' fans I thought I would give it a shot!

by **StatFreak101** on Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:30 am

itstimetopretendiliveinmaine wrote:Pretty decent forum you have running here! I am an avid Twins fan who currently lives in Maine. This is my first post on any Twins forum, but since Maine really does not have many Twins' fans I thought I would give it a shot!

Heeyyyyyy buuuuddddyyyyyy! :lol:

by **OldLadyTwinsFan** on Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:52 pm

itstimetopretendiliveinmaine wrote:Pretty decent forum you have running here! I am an avid Twins fan who currently lives in Maine. This is my first post on any Twins forum, but since Maine really does not have many Twins' fans I thought I would give it a shot!

I dream of the day when Stupid Jock will make sweet love to me under a juniper tree ... all those red sox fans! poor thing! my sister lives there ... and she became one of them!

by **casmonkey** on Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:36 pm

Hi, n00b here.

Cassy, originally hailing from California. I'm actually a die hard Angels fan, but living in MN now, and I gotta get my baseball fix somehow. Excited to learn more about the Twins, I have always really respected the org.

by **Justanotherfan** on Sat Mar 28, 2009 6:14 pm

OldLadyTwinsFan wrote:
itstimetopretendiliveinmaine wrote:Pretty decent forum you have running here! I am an avid Twins fan who currently lives in Maine. This is my first post on any Twins forum, but since Maine really does not have many Twins' fans I thought I would give it a shot!

I dream of the day when Stupid Jock will make sweet love to me under a juniper tree ... all those red sox fans! poor thing! my sister lives there ... and she became one of them!

Tell me about it. Pretty much any bar establishment you go to will try and convert you to Red Sox nation. IF you are gutsy enough to wear anything other then Red Sox garb, you will be heckled beyond belief.

by **Reginald Maudling's Shin** on Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:34 pm

Good afternoon, and greetings from Las Vegas. I decided to join and post here since you guys are both knowledgable and hilarious.

by **Pseudofool** on Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:49 pm

Reginald Maudling's Shin wrote:Good afternoon, and greetings from Las Vegas. I decided to join and post here since you guys are both knowledgable and hilarious.

Welcome aboard.

by **Frozented9** on Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:34 pm

Reginald Maudling's Shin wrote:Good afternoon, and greetings from Las Vegas. I decided to join and post here since you guys are both knowledgeable and hilarious.

Lets not inflate egos any more then they already are.

by **Doba** on Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:53 pm

Life long Cubs fan here that grew up in Eau Claire, WI. Can't stand the Brewers. The last 3 years have been the toughest for me to stay a faithful Cubs fan. I was at 2 playoff games in 07 at AZ and one at Wrigley last year. This year was just flat out frustrating to watch. I've slowly started paying more attention to the Twins over the last few years. I don't think I could ever stop loving the Cubs, but I really enjoy Twins style baseball. Sucks that they got swept, but I could see it coming. As Cubs fans always say, "Next Year."

-Brandon

by **Klobs** on Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:25 pm

Doba wrote:Life long Cubs fan here that grew up in Eau Claire, WI. Can't stand the Brewers. The last 3 years have been the toughest for me to stay a faithful Cubs fan. I was at 2 playoff games in 07 at AZ and one at Wrigley last year. This year was just flat out frustrating to watch. I've slowly started paying more attention to the Twins over the last few years. I don't think I could ever stop loving the Cubs, but I really enjoy Twins style baseball. Sucks that they got swept, but I could see it coming. As Cubs fans always say, "Next Year."

-Brandon

Welcome. How's Italy?

by **Doba** on Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:01 pm

Italy is cool. I'm in the Air Force and been here about a year now. Sucks for watching baseball though.

Website · by **ChoneZone** on Thu Dec 03, 2009 3:53 pm

Hey all...22 year old college student here, St. Cloud MN. Been a long time Twins fan and a pretty hardcore follower the past 3-4 seasons or so. I've been an on-again-off-again reader of these boards for a while now and decided I might as well register and start posting myself. I like these boards and I've found discussions here to be pretty knowledgeable and generally quite humorous too. Seems like a pretty good place to talk Twins.

On a side note, I don't know if this has been mentioned before but does anyone else find the image verification feature in the board registration to be insanely challenging? Seriously, it was the most difficult image verification I've ever done on a registration form. Took me 7 or so attempts, including getting locked out for a while for" spamming" the registration.

by **Klobs** on Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:03 pm

ChoneZone wrote:Hey all...22 year old college student here, St. Cloud MN. Been a long time Twins fan and a pretty hardcore follower the past 3-4 seasons or so. I've been an on-again-off-again reader of these boards for a while now and decided I might as well register and start posting myself. I like these boards and I've found discussions here to be pretty knowledgeable and generally quite humorous too. Seems like a pretty good place to talk Twins.

On a side note, I don't know if this has been mentioned before but does anyone else find the image verification feature in the board registration to be insanely challenging? Seriously, it was the most difficult image verification I've ever done on a registration form. Took me 7 or so attempts, including getting locked out for a while for" spamming" the registration.

Welcome!

Who can't read that?

by **ofx1** on Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:49 am

Kobs wrote:
Who can't read that?

Holy fuckin-a.

by **Rocketpig** on Sat Dec 05, 2009 7:17 pm

Kobs wrote:
ChoneZone wrote:Hey all...22 year old college student here, St. Cloud MN. Been a long time Twins fan and a pretty hardcore follower the past 3-4 seasons or so. I've been an on-again-off-again reader of these boards for a while now and decided I might as well register and start posting myself. I like these boards and I've found discussions here to be pretty knowledgeable and generally quite humorous too. Seems like a pretty good place to talk Twins.

On a side note, I don't know if this has been mentioned before but does anyone else find the image verification feature in the board registration to be insanely challenging? Seriously, it was the most difficult image verification I've ever done on a registration form. Took me 7 or so attempts, including getting locked out for a while for" spamming" the registration.

Welcome!

Who can't read that?

Jesus fucking Christ. I had no idea.

I can't stop laughing. That shit is indecipherable. I'll look into it when I have more time.

by **Klobs** on Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:31 pm

I already reduced the difficulty, of course, we're getting more spambot registrations.

by **lambo_asdf** on Sun Dec 06, 2009 12:26 am

Kobs wrote:I already reduced the difficulty, of course, we're getting more spambot registrations.

I think you can change it to actual questions. You could have it be something like "Which player wears #7 and is also known as the Baby Jesus?"

by **edavis0308** on Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:05 pm

I finally just opened the "Welcome" thread and realized I never posted in it as a new user about a year ago. Since nobody really ever recognizes my name when I post anything, I figured I should probably throw some information out about me. I am a 24/m living in West Des Moines, IA and work as a Chemist for an ink manufactoring company called Siegwerk. I graduated college from the University of Iowa. I usually make it up to the cities once over month or two, as my sister lives in Eagan. That's about all the information I feel like anyone will retain that even reads this about me, so we will keep it at that.

by **hawkiconk** on Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:31 pm

edavis0308 wrote:I finally just opened the "Welcome" thread and realized I never posted in it as a new user about a year ago. Since nobody really ever recognizes my name when I post anything, I figured I should probably throw some information out about me. I am a 24/m living in West Des Moines, IA and work as a Chemist for an ink manufactoring company called Siegwerk. I graduated college from the University of Iowa. I usually make it up to the cities once over month or two, as my sister lives in Eagan. That's about all the information I feel like anyone will retain that even reads this about me, so we will keep it at that.

go hawkeyes!!

by **Milkman** on Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:49 pm

Hey all...Huge Twins fan from ND. I've been following this site for a couple months now, thought I better get an account. Now in the off chance I want to make a comment and prove just how hopelessly optimistic I am about MN sports, I can.

by **Pseudofool** on Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:52 pm

Milkman wrote:hopelessly optimistic

You'll fit right in.

by **OldLadyTwinsFan** on Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:47 pm

Pseudofool wrote:
Milkman wrote:hopelessly optimistic
You'll fit right in.

I thought to fit right in it was 'Season over' at every posting.

by **Milkman** on Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:59 pm

OldLadyTwinsFan wrote:
Pseudofool wrote:
Milkman wrote:hopelessly optimistic
You'll fit right in.

I thought to fit right in it was 'Season over' at every posting.

As far as I can tell, I will only fit in with 50% of the members. The other half are "Season's over" doomsday'ers. So I guess you could say this site is "half full" of optimists.

by **freshinthehouse** on Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:58 am

Milkman wrote:Hey all...Huge Twins fan from ND. I've been following this site for a couple months now, thought I better get an account. Now in the off chance I want to make a comment and prove just how hopelessly optimistic I am about MN sports, I can.

Get fucked.

by **kessdawg** on Wed May 05, 2010 3:40 pm

Hello, my name is Kessdawg, and I've been sober for... crap wrong thread

Hi anyway!

by **a-wan** on Sat May 08, 2010 6:44 pm

kessdawg wrote:Hello, my name is Kessdawg, and I've been sober for... crap wrong thread

Hi anyway!

Did we scare them away, already???

by **mnroots** on Fri May 28, 2010 11:38 am

Been following you guys on and off for a few years. I've silently witnessed itstimetotakeit's many blow-ups and his eventual demise (hopefully). I've watched dave and stat's infantile arguments. I've been plagued by dan's endless stream of ridiculous claims. In short, I spend way too much time on these forums and decided it might be time to post.

by **Pseudofool** on Fri May 28, 2010 11:41 am

mnroots wrote:Been following you guys on and off for a few years. I've silently witnessed itstimetotakeit's many blow-ups and his eventual demise (hopefully). I've watched dave and stat's infantile arguments. I've been plagued by dan's endless stream of ridiculous claims. In short, I spend way too much time on these forums and decided it might be time to post.

Sounds like you'll fit right in. Now shine my shoes, newbie.